Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century classy xmas art and ventilator ball are drawn

and ventilator ball are drawn in the patient hand of a draftsman charting the small architecture standing between a keeper and the dark

four years of blood and ledger reduced to Grant's terms scratched out in pencil and Lee's quiet assent

the great thoroughfare caught mid-swagger in its top-hat era

Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States 1861 — a portrait fixed at the precise hinge of the republic

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century classy xmas art and ventilator ball are drawnAbraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century a portrait of the rail splitter turned wartime executive, his gaunt face already carrying the ledger of a republic at war with itself, rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men whose decisions were measured in regiments and graves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional